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LANE GIST, OF LAKE CITY, IOIVA.

WATEIFtlNG=TROUGiL SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters atent No. 680,772, dated August 20, 1901.

Application iiled December 3l, 1900. Serial No. 41,726. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, LANE Grsr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lake City, in the county of Calhoun and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Automatic Watering-Troughs, of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention is an improved construction of watering-trough, the object being to provide a simple and efficient means for maintaining the water-supply in a stock-trough at a denite level; and with this object in view the invention consists in the peculiar construction of the various parts and in their novel combination and arrangement, all of which will be fully described hereinafter and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming part of this speciiication, Figure lis a View showing the practical application of my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the apparatus, and Fig. 3 is a sectional view showing a slightly-modified form of construction.

In carrying out my invention I employ a receiving-tank A, which may be of any desirable size and shape and into which the water is led from any suitable source through an opening A. The discharge-tank B is arranged adjacent to the tank A and has an annular trough C supported thereon, the central raised portion C having a series of openings C2, through which the water passes into the annular trough, and it is from this annular trough that the stock drink. A pipe D leads from the tank A and connects with the larger pipe D, having a valve-seat E in the upper end thereof adapted for engagement with the ball-valve F, which is connected to a float G, operating in a discharge-tank B and Working up and down in 'the raised portion C of the trough C. It will be understood from the foregoing description that the water will flow from the storage or receiving tank A into the discharge-tank B and out through the opening C2 into the annular trough, and when the water reaches a predetermined level the float G will cause the valve F to seat upon the valve-seat E and cut off the supply of water; but as soon as the supply falls below the predetermined level the 5o valve will become unseated, permitting more water to flow through and reestablish the predetermined level.

By constructing the discharge-tank and trough in the manner describedI am enabled to arrange the iioat-valve within the same in a very compact manner. In Fig. 3 I have shown a slight modification, in which A2 is the receiving-tank and B2 the discharge-tank ar-` ranged therein, said discharge-tank having 6o a tubular opening B3, in which is located the valve-seat E@ in which works the valve F', connected to the iioat Gf', arranged within the discharge-tank, said discharge-tank having a pipe B4 leading therefrom into the trough C3. 65 The operation of the modified form is eX- actly the same as the operation of the device shown and described in Figs. l and 2.

Having thus fully described my invention, whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by 7o Letters Patent of the United States, is-`- l. An automatic watering device, comprising a receiving-tank, and a discharge-tank, and the pipes connecting the said tanks, the annular trough arranged upon the top of the discharge-tank and having a central raised portion provided with openings, a iioat arranged in the discharge-tank and adapted to move up and down with the central raised portion of the annular trough, and the valve 8o connected to said iioat, substantially as shown and described.

2. In an automatic watering device, the combination with the receiving and discharge tanks, and pipes connecting the same, of the annular water-trough arranged upon the discharge-tank, and having a central raised portion provided with openings, the iioat arranged within the discharge-tank and adapted to operate in the central raised portion, 9o the valve-seat located in the upper end of the pipe leading into the discharge-tank, and the valve adapted to coact with the said seat, substantially as shown and described.

LANE GIST. lVitnesses:

G. W. Davis, F. P. MITCHELL. 

